The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1887-06-07

LILO love, anu tllc NNCuulnss55 VI yGSI Gldea1J.
was the happy result At Twas the wish Of
Miss Finch that she be married among
erold friends il Cincinnati. - Cincinnati
Enquirer. .
A Female Fireman.
There is one branch Of labor that has
never been invaded by women to any ex-.
tent. While she, In search Of employ
mcnt, becomes a. telegraph operator,
ticket agent, typesetter, typewriter, clerk,
salesWoman and even newspaper editor
and reportesss il has always been supposed
that she never aspired to- be either an en-
gineer or fireman on a locomotive. But
Bridgeport holds a woman in tie person
of Hattie sMorgans, who has seen but
4 twenty three years, and who has been
stoker in England and engineer on a
freight engine lin Connecticut. She has
brigh-colored, banged hair, large dark
eyes, and, although her face is weather
beaten, she is quite handsome. She is
rather masculine in appearance and of q
determined expression Of character. Her
story runs as follows:
About FIVE years ago, while she was
living in London, she fell in love with
Tom Winnan, and engineer on the Fly
ing Scotchman, an express train which
runs between London and Edinburgh.
She loved himfondly, and was never hap
3 py except when he was near her She
was anxious to be constantly with him,
and it was arranged between them that
she should become his fireman So she
arrayed herself ina coarse suit of mems
clothes, and was at once TRANSIT into
4 ia Handsome young fireman. Day after
q day she attended to her duties, and the
ipondeIous engine. No. 362, with itesagRa,
foot drivers, used to do the mile minute
act over the heavy metals. Both she and
Tom kept their secret well, and she and
Afonl were to,be married.
But on one black day Tom was killed
BY being run, over by shunted car, and.
he died in less than hour with his head
in Hattie's lap. In her anguish her
secret was revealed.
She left England, which had no more
happiness for her, and came to this coun-
try. She had some money, but it soon
dWindled away, and she found that she
must do something So, again Disgusting
herself, she applied for a 1ireman's posi-
ton on. Locomotive on q Connecticut
railroad. She served nearly two years
acceptably, and has been given q freight
engine. AS she had a seventy four mile
run and ~ was the number of her engine,
it is believed that her run was Oh the
New York division of the New York,
New Haven and, Hartford Railroad. She
worked very well and showed her skill
when her engine got out Of repair. She
was finally given the day express to run,
aud while there she killed two men. One
was walking Ion the track and she blew
the whistle repeatedly, but he paid no at
tention and the engine struck and man
/ gled him. The other man undertook to
drive his wagon over grade crossing,
and both he and his horse were mutilated
past recognition:
MI These accidents broke Hattie Morgans
! all up. She was efonerated blythe Off
Gals, but she could not sleep, and the
men constantly appeared before her.
a Finally she was running engine No.
20 with fast express at the rate Of
miles an hour. Far ahead on the
rack she saw something which she
thong was piece of newspaper. AS she
neared it she saw it was d little child
playing with the dirt and stones. Its
little life was crushed out on the instant.
Hattie tried her best to reverse the en-
CINE, but Ii vain. When the train
stopped the engineer almost tainted.
That was herElast trip. The little child
haunted her day and night and she had
I severe fit of sickness. Then she re-
sumed her proper dress.
She is now engaged to be married to
an engineer who has charge of a sixty
horse power engine in a large factory not
far from New Haven. She hopes on her
wedding tour to visit. England and show
I her husband lthe lying Scotchman, Y
where she received her first lessons iii
Tailroading. But she can never, she says,
forget the lives that were crushed out
4 gheh she stood iii the cab and sent the
locomotive along at almost lightning
speed. Neso1 RorEE Herald.
B Fashion Notes.
Large quantities Of lace will be used
nppn the coming seasons millinery.
Tiny butterflies ID green gold, set with
GEMS, ale appropriate tor scarf pins.
ii the trimming Of bonnets the care
fs,l avoidance Of anything like monotone
IS very noticeable. 81
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